Author: John rubber
The Mediterranean has been drawing people to its islands for three thousand years. The Romans built villas on Capri. The Venetians fortified Corfu. The Phoenicians traded…
Route 1 — the Ring Road — circles Iceland for 1,332 kilometres. It passes glaciers, active volcanoes, sea cliffs with puffin colonies, geothermal fields, and fjords.…
Norway’s scenic routes are designated by the government — eighteen roads officially selected for exceptional landscape. Driving them is not a commute with views; it is…
Bali does not need defending. It is the most visited island in Southeast Asia for reasons that are immediately obvious from the moment the plane descends…
Portugal is one of the best road trip destinations in Europe. It is compact enough to cross in four hours but varied enough to sustain three…
The American Southwest is where road trips acquire their logic. The distances between the highlights are too large to walk and too dramatic to see from…
Tokyo operates at a frequency that most visitors do not expect. It is the largest city in the world — 37 million people in the greater…
Japan beyond Tokyo is a different country. The shinkansen network means that Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nara, and the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail are all within a…
Indonesia is 17,000 islands, and most travellers see three of them. Bali is the entry point; Lombok is the stepping stone east; everywhere else is, for…
Packing cubes transformed the way I travel, and I say that as someone who was sceptical for years. The argument against them — that they add…